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After an L.A. windstorm, he used fallen trees to make furniture with a story behind it

5+ hour, 37+ min ago  (1440+ words) After a devastating windstorm destroyed more than 1,200 Pasadena trees in 2011, architect Chris Peck spent the next six years gathering fallen trees, milling the trunks into slabs, and storing and drying them in his garage and his friends" garages while he…...